Every 4th Brit Muslim says 7/7 justified

London: Nearly 25 per cent of Britain’s Muslim population believe that the July 7, 2005 London attacks can be justified because of the Tony’s Blair Government's support to the US in the 'war on terror'.

Experts believe that denials by 10 Downing Street notwithstanding, the fact was that the wars in Afghanistan and later Iraq had radicalised Britain’s young Muslim population.

According to the Daily Mail, 23 per cent of Britain’s Muslim population, which stands out to 3,70,000 of the 1.6 millions Muslims living in the UK, justify the 7/7 attacks.

In the latest survey of 1,000 Muslims, for a Channel Four Dispatches documentary to be screened tonight, almost four in ten surveyed said Britain was a country of bad moral behaviour.

A third of Muslims even admitted to disapproving the freedoms allowed in the UK, saying they would rather want to live in veils and curtain under a harsh Sharia law. They said they also dreamt of Britain one day becoming an Islamic state.

Sixty six per cent said British parents allowed their children too much freedom, while a total of 44 per cent said they wanted their children to study at a state funded Muslim school.

Four of every ten surveyed were of the opinion that another attack would be launched by British-born Muslim terrorists. An equal number believed Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed to stop her marrying a Muslim, Egyptian multi billionaire Dodi al Fayed.

Fifty per cent of the people surveyed police stop and search too many Muslims.

However, the survey is not entirely gloomy, as 80 per cent said that persons who knew of a terrorist act and did not report it to the authorities were to be equally blamed for any terrorist activity.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, Inayat Bunglawala said, some of the survey's findings were 'staggering'.

"Many, many people in this country, both Muslim and non-Muslim, understand that our participation in the so-called war on terror and Iraq and Afghanistan have - far from increasing our country's national security - have actually undermined it. But there is never any justification for indiscriminate acts of terrorism that target innocent civilians. That can never be justified," he said.

On the Sharia law he said, "Muslims in Britain were fortunate enough to live in a country where they could achieve changes to the law through peaceful, democratic protests. That is how it should be. I find the figure of one-third wanting Sharia law just staggering".